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Sly, Slick and Wicked is a R&B singing group from Cleveland, active since 1970. The trio has recorded for Paramount, People Records, Polydor, Shaker, Jupar, Motown, Sweet City, and Epic. They were inducted into The R&B Music Hall of Fame in 2013.
Website. www.mightyojays.com. The O'Jays are an American R&B group from Canton, Ohio, formed in summer 1958 and originally consisting of Eddie Levert, Walter Lee Williams, William Powell, Bobby Massey, and Bill Isles. [ 3 ][ 4 ] The O'Jays made their first chart appearance with the minor hit "Lonely Drifter" in 1963, but reached their greatest ...
The group's last big hit was "Who'd She Coo?" a No. 1 R&B hit in August 1976. It was their only success in the United Kingdom, where it peaked at No. 43 on the UK Singles Chart in July 1976. [ 15 ] Their title track "Ecstasy" from the 1973 album Ecstasy was sampled by Jay-Z on " Brooklyn's Finest ", featuring The Notorious B.I.G. from the 1996 ...
The Hesitations. The Hesitations are an American R&B group from Cleveland, Ohio. Formed in 1965, they scored several hits in 1967 and 1968, the biggest being their gospel-infused version of the title track to the movie Born Free. After one of the group's singers George "King" Scott was accidentally shot and killed in February 1968, the group ...
Dayton, Ohio, United States. Genres. Funk. Years active. 1969–present. Labels. Solar, ABC. Lakeside is an American funk band, best known for their 1980 number one R&B hit " Fantastic Voyage ". [ 1 ]
Ruby & the Romantics was an Akron, Ohio -based American R&B group in the 1960s, composed of Ruby Nash, George Lee, Ronald Mosely, Leroy Fann and Ed Roberts. The group had several pop and R&B hit records, topping the US Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1963 with their first recording, " Our Day Will Come ". The song, written by Mort Garson and Bob ...
Sun is an R&B, soul, disco, and funk band that was formed in the mid-1970s and recorded prolifically for Capitol Records from 1976 to 1984. The band was founded by Byron Byrd in Dayton, Ohio, in 1976. Additional members included Kym Yancey, Chris Jones (later of Dayton (band)), Gary King, John Wagner, Hollis Melson, and Shawn Sandridge.
Atlantic Records (1989–1993) The Rude Boys is a 1990s R&B /vocal group from Cleveland, Ohio. The group consisted of Larry Marcus, Melvin Sephus, and brothers Edward Lee "Buddy" Banks and Joe Little III. Marcus later died in October 2016. [1] In 2019 The Rude Boys were inducted into the National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame in Detroit, Michigan.